Adding and removing DOS drives

Go to Drives ▸ Show DOS Drives to open the Drives Inspector. This panel shows what DOS drives are available and lets you add, remove, and swap between drives.

To add a drive to DOS:

Boxer remembers which drives you’ve added for a particular game, so they’ll be there next time you start up the game too.

To swap between CDs/floppies:

When you add extra CDs or floppies, they will go into a queue with any previous CD/floppy, using the same drive letter.

You can then swap between each CD/floppy in a queue:

If you want to have CDs/floppies on separate drive letters — e.g. one floppy at drive A and another at drive B — then add the drives manually with the + button as described above.

To remove a drive from DOS:

Bundling additional drives into a gamebox

Each of your gameboxes includes a drive C for the hard disk where the game is installed, and usually a drive D for the game’s CD-ROM. These are physically part of the gamebox, so anyone with the gamebox has everything they need to play.

If you want to include additional drives for distribution — for instance, extra CDs for a multi-CD game — then you can bundle them into the gamebox too:

  1. Add the new drive to DOS if it isn’t already, by following the instructions above.
  2. In the Drives Inspector, select the drive and click on the CD sliding into box icon; or right-click on the drive and choose Import into Gamebox.
  3. Make a cup of tea while the drive imports.

Once the import is finished, the drive will be a permanent part of the gamebox.

The import process will physically copy the drive’s contents into the gamebox, creating a duplicate of the original folder or image used for the drive. You don’t need to keep the original around after this.

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